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FOUNTAIN BRUSH.

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FOUNTAIN BRUSH.

(Application filed Dec. 80, 1899.)

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FOUNTAlN-BRUSH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 660,002, dated. October 16, 1900.

Application filed December 30, 1899. Serial No.742.134

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, JACOB S. CASEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. J- seph, in the county of Buchanan, State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fountain-Brushes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to fountain-brushes, and more particularly to those intended for use as bath-brushes, and has for its object primarily to provide an improved construction wherein the water-supplying or fountain portion of the device may be instantly attached to or detached from the brush, the latter being adapted to receive the same, so that the brush and water-supplying or fountain orseparately, as desired.

My invention also embraces certain other novel features of construction with respect to the means for attaching the water-supplying portion to the brush and for providing a separable fountain apparatus capable'of being readily cleansed.

These objects I accomplish in the manner and by the means hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of an ordinary handled brush, showing one form of my improved fountain attachment detachably applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of one of the attaching devices shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1, but at a right angle thereto, showing a handleless brush and certain modifications in the various parts. Figs. at and 5 are perspective views showing modified forms of connecting devices. Fig. 6 is a sectional view, and Fig. 7 a detail. perspective, of a modified form of cutoff valve.

Similar numerals of reference denote corresponding parts in the several views.

In the said drawings the numeral ldenotes an ordinary brush centrally apertu red to receive the water-supplying or fountain apparatus and provided in said aperture with a suitable bushing 2.

In Fig. 1 I have shown the brush provided with the usual handle 3 for manipulating the same,the fountain apparatus in this instance consisti ngof a flexible tube 4, adapted to be con the model.)

nected at its free end to any suitable source of watensupply,suoh as a faucet,and attached by any suitable form of detachable coupling to a casting 5, the latter carrying the devices for attaching it to the brush and also carrying a spraying-chainber, while in Fig. 3 the brush is without a handle, the casting 5 being extended angularly to provide a handhold,

as shown. In said Fig. 3 is shown in detail the preferred form of coupling for the flexible tube 4, the same consisting of a swelled nipple 0', formed on the end of the casting 5, over which is expanded the end of tube 4, the

latter being clamped thereon by a collar 7,

having a screw-threaded engagement with the casting 5, as will be readily understood.

The preferred form of detachable connecting. means between casting 5 and the brush is shown in Figs. 1 and 2 and consists of two arms 8, pivoted intermediate their length to lugs 9, projecting from opposite sides of the casting 5, the lower ends of said arms being formed into hooks 10, facing toward each other, as shown, and adapted to engage under angular projections 11, rising from and formed integral with the bushing 2 in the brush, said arms 8 projecting upward to provide a finger-hold and normally pressed on tward at their upper ends by springs 12. In the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the sprinkling portion consists of a chamber 13, perforated in its under side for the passage of the water and having a screwthreaded engagement with the casting 5, a circumferential rim let being formed thereon that overlies the upper edge of the bushing and limits the movement of the chamber 13 thereinto, said rim being recessed or notched at 15, as shown in Fig. 2, to accommodate the projections 11 and to prevent sidewisc movement of the fountain attachment. A cut-off valve 16, of any suitable construction, is provided in casting 5, the same being manipulated by bail 17.

In Fig. 3, wherein a casting 5, extended into a handle, is employed, the connecting means is the same as that shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the same not being seen, however, from the pointof View, the only difference being that the rim 1% is formed integral with casting 5 instead of on chamber 13. The

form of cut-off valve, however, is different,

22, projecting from opposite sides of the rim 14, formed on said casting and adapted to detachably engage under spring-plates 23, as

shown, where they will be held against any i but a positive displacement. So, also, in Fig. 5, where I have shown thumb-nuts having horizontal tongues 24, adapted to lie over the rim 14,the latter being recessed or notched to receive the circular portions 25 of said thumb-nuts to prevent lateral movement.

In Figs. 6 and 7, wherein the casting is the same as that shown in Fig. 3, I have illustrated a somewhat-different form of cut-off valve,the same consisting of the downwardlymoving valve 26, carried by stem 27, that is pivoted to a cross-bar 28, mounted between the bifurcated end of lever 29, the ends of the latter acting as a cam against the top of casting 5 to raise or lower stem 27 and being retained in position by lugs 30 on said casting engaging over projecting surfaces 31 on said cam ends.

While the disclosure in my application has been necessarily limited to certain preferred forms of detachable connecting means between the casting and the brush 1 and to certain preferred forms of cut-off valves, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself to any of the forms shown, my invention comprehending, broadly, engaging devices adapted' to connect the two parts together and means for causing said devices to engage with each other and for releasing the same and any form and convenient location of the cut-off valve.

From the above description it will be seen that by my improved construction there is provided a fountain apparatus capable of ready attachment to and use with a brush, either with or without ahandle, said fountain apparatus and brush being at the same time capable of separate and independent use, for by detaching the'one from the other the brush is left similar in all substantial respects to an ordinary brush and capable of full use as such, while the fountain apparatus is adapted to be used as such separately and as efficiently as is the ordinary fountain spraying apparatus now in'use with the modern bathtubs. It will also be observed that as the spraying-chamber 13 and tube 4 are detachably connected to the casting 5 or 5 a ready means is afforded for separating the parts in order to cleanse the same should they become clogged with impurities of any character.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- l. The combination with a brush having an aperture therein, of a fountain apparatus consisting of a supply-tube, a casting to which said supply-tube is detachably connected, and a spraying-chamber detachably connected to said casting and adapted to enter the aperture in the brush, a rim on said fountain apparatus adapted to bear against the brushback for limiting the movement of said spraying-chamber in said brush, and means independent of said spraying apparatus for detachably connecting together said brush and fountain apparatus,substantially as set forth.

2. The combination with a brush having an aperture therein, and a fountain apparatus adapted to be inserted in said aperture, of engaging devices adapted to connect the two parts together, and means for causing said devices to engage with each other and for releasing the same, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination with abrush having an aperture therein, and a fountain apparatus adapted to be inserted in said aperture, of spring-pressed hooked arms pivoted on opposite sides of one of said parts and adapted to detachably engage projections on the other part to retain the two together, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JACOB S. CASEY.

Witnesses:

M. M. CRANDALL, J. S. BOYER. 

